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Article #621017Re: Computers With Interesting Form Factors
From: David Wade
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:26
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:26
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On 27/02/2018 05:44, Quadibloc wrote: > On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 7:19:29 PM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:12:47 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc >> <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >>> Recently, the DELL Inspiron Duo came to my attention. A number of laptops >>> have a lid that opens 360 degrees to operate in tablet mode; this one, >>> instead, had the display turn 180 degrees in the rest of the lid that framed >>> it, so that the tablet mode left the keyboard protected on the inside. > >> My Thinkpad X is like that. The new ones aren't though. > > Ah, yes. But the Thinkpad X display was re-oriented by swiveling the whole top > of the laptop horizontally around a single pivoted hinge. In the case of the > DELL Inspiron Duo, the display was turned vertically in the middle of the top of > the laptop, which stayed in place as a frame. > > So the same result was achieved somewhat differently. > > John Savard > I think the Compaq TC1000 and TC1100 were interesting. Horrid performance, but detachable keyboard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100 Dave
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